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Real solutions for retention and recruitment

Recruitment, retention and training are now the primary challenges for the healthcare services industry. The obvious solution to keeping staff - paying more – is no longer working. Private operators around the world are now fishing in a global market that's short of 15m healthcare workers. So what practical solutions are operators putting into force and what really works? We talk to 25 operators from across the world.
March 9, 2017

IPOs galore in the UK, Sweden and Finland

A wave of IPOs in the Nordics and the UK look likely in healthcare services. Investec is planning to IPO fast-growth British teleradiology group Medica and East European outpatient player Medicover is supposed to be IPOing in the second quarter in Sweden. Meanwhile the two largest Finnish providers look set to IPO in 2017.
March 2, 2017

Sales grow at Spire, but problems hurt margins

The CFO of the UK's second largest hospital group says the group's margins were negatively affected adversely by two problems last year - but it still saw rapid growth for other reasons.
March 2, 2017

Interview: Jill Watts, CEO BMI Healthcare

Jill Watts has worked in healthcare for almost 40 years, and since she was appointed group CEO of BMI Healthcare in November 2014, she's been widely credited with turning the business around. A former CEO of Ramsay UK, she has strong views about the market, the state of the NHS, and the role of the private sector. Here's what she had to say when Healthcare Europa caught up with her in London.
February 26, 2017

Medica to float as teleradiology booms

Investec is to handle the IPO of Medica Group, a UK-based teleradiology company with sales of £30m in 2016 and a network of around 250 radiologists, say reliable sources.
February 16, 2017

Half of UK patients unaware of eligibility for private treatment

English GPs are failing to alert their patients of their right to choose who provides them with NHS treatment shows performance figures released by NHS England yesterday. The number of patients waiting more than a year for planned surgery has grown by 63% in one year, demonstrates the same research, though the private sector now provides one-third of hip and knee replacements.
February 10, 2017
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